WAR ON TERROR

Panetta: Pak officials had to know about bin Laden

'Somebody would have asked the question, 'What the hell's going on there?''

Published: 01/27/2012 at 9:23 PM

(THE HILL) — Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta says he believes government authorities in Pakistan knew about the whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

“I personally have always felt that somebody must have had some sense of what was happening at this compound,” said Panetta about the fugitive’s hideout in an interview to air Sunday on CBS’s 60 Minutes.